Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To swell; puff out.
- To swell; protrude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
cry ,whine orblubber - verb obsolete To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cry or whine with snuffling
Etymologies
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Examples
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All the time the whistle and blub-blub of bullets filled the air, and all the time the death-list grew.
THE SUNLANDERS 2010
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When the duchess smiles, her face lights up like a 100-watt light blub.
Lisa Mirza Grotts: Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown! Lisa Mirza Grotts 2011
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When the duchess smiles, her face lights up like a 100-watt light blub.
Lisa Mirza Grotts: Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown! Lisa Mirza Grotts 2011
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All-new, all-ages, all-action fun featuring the Grey Gargoyle and – glub blub blub blub – HYDRO-MAN!!!!!!!
Marvel Solicitations for January 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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When the duchess smiles, her face lights up like a 100-watt light blub.
Lisa Mirza Grotts: Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown! Lisa Mirza Grotts 2011
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When the word was given the brief day was almost spent, and it was slow work and tedious, rolling the big bales forward foot by foot The bullets of the Sunlanders blub-blubbed and thudded against them, but could not go through, and the men howled their delight But the dark was at hand, and Tyee, secure of success, called the bales back to the trenches.
THE SUNLANDERS 2010
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I want the lady with the nice smelling skin not your furry blub.
Ethan Sandler: Seahorses and Similac Ethan Sandler 2010
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I want the lady with the nice smelling skin not your furry blub.
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Chatting in their usual rapid-fire mix of Czech and Slovak -- a sound that assistant coach Tim Hunter once described as "three guys trying to drown: blub-blub-blub" -- the trio suddenly broke into hysterical laughter.
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But still: long before Toy Story 3 made this summer's grown men blub like little girls, I sobbed over Field of Dreams.
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